Punch,  4 (1843), 150.

A Letter from the Genuine Comet

The Comet

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Astronomy, Prognostication


    Writing from 'Over the White Bear, Piccadilly', 'The Comet' announces that it has been 'a thousand years coming fifty millions of miles' to give British artists a chance to introduce it into cartoons. Thinks John F W Herschel 'ought to have known I was on my way'.



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